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Nisansa de Silva

University of Oregon

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#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

Confident but Wrong: A Constrained Decoding Diagnostic for Low-Resource Automatic Post-Editing

Automatic Post-Editing (APE) for low-resource languages (LRLs) often fails to improve Machine Translation (MT), and the score alone cannot say why: whether more training would help, or whether the training data is too inconsistent to learn from. We introduce a black-box, inference-time diagnostic that tells these two c...

Isuru Wijesiri, Nisansa de Silva, Kavindu Warnakulasuriya et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

EnSiTa - A Trilingual Multi-Domain Parallel Dataset and Benchmark for Domain-Specific Machine Translation

EnSiTa is presented, a trilingual multi-domain parallel dataset and benchmark for English, Sinhala and Tamil, and is the most extensive systematically documented multi-domain parallel data creation and benchmarking effort for low-resource MT.

Surangika Ranathunga, Nisansa de Silva, Aloka Fernando et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
Conference Aug 2026

LMSpell: Spell Correction with Pre-Trained Language Models

Spell correction is still a challenging problem for many languages, especially low-resource languages (LRLs). While pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been employed for spell correction, there has been no proper comparison across PLMs. We present the first empirical study on the effectiveness of the three types of...

Akesh Gunathilake, N. Karunarathna, Tharusha Bandaranayake et al. · 0 citations
#edge computing Preprint Sep 2026

TripleBound: Triplet-Guided Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Microservice Decomposition

TripleBound is proposed, a hybrid framework for automated monolith-to-microservices decomposition that augments a heterogeneous graph neural network with weakly supervised triplet constraints derived from parser-inferred service groups based on package structure, naming conventions, and code location.

M. Weerasinghe, Himindu Kularathne, Methmini Madhushika et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Dynamics of meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Change in Sinhala

Tracking semantic change in low-resource languages across extensive historical timelines presents significant challenges due to data scarcity and the limitations of static embedding alignments. This study investigates the diachronic evolution of the Sinhala language from the 13th to the 20th century using a multi-stage...

Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva · 0 citations
#natural language process... Conference Open access Aug 2025

SinLlama - A Large Language Model for Sinhala

This research extends an existing multilingual LLM (Llama-3-8B) to get a better coverage for Sinhala and enhances the LLM tokenizer with Sinhala specific vocabulary and performs continual pre-training on a 10 million sentence Sinhala corpus, resulting in the SinLlama model.

H.W.K. Aravinda, Rashad Sirajudeen, Samith Karunathilake et al. · 10 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Jun 2026

Forecasting Weather-Driven Price Dynamics Across Sri Lankan Tea Market Catalogues

The Colombo Tea Auction (CTA) plays a vital role in determining global tea prices, yet the relationship between local weather conditions and price behavior across different tea catalogues has not been thoroughly explored. In this study, we develop a novel, structured dataset by extracting information from 105 weekly br...

H. Mallawarachchi, Senilka Madurapperumage, Nadil Kulathunge et al. · 0 citations
Review Jul 2026

Semantics of Subterfuge: Benchmarking Legal Deception Detection Against General-domain State-of-the-Art

A survey and comparative analysis of NLP-based Automatic Deception Detection focusing on the legal domain and the evolution from feature-based machine learning to Large Language Model (LLM) approaches are presented, showing strong domain sensitivity.

T. Samaradiwakara, Nisansa de Silva, George C. Lobb · 0 citations

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